Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044

Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044
Solar eclipse of February 28, 2044
	Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	-0.9954
Magnitude	0.96
Maximum eclipse
Duration	147 sec (2 m 27 s)
Coordinates	62°12′S 25°36′W / 62.2°S 25.6°W
Max. width of band	- km
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	20:24:40
References
Saros	121 (62 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9605

An annular solar eclipse will occur on Sunday, February 28, 2044. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

This is the last of 55 umbral eclipses of Solar Saros 121. The 1st was in 1070 and the 55th will be in 2044. The total duration is 974 years.

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Related eclipses[]

Solar eclipses of 2044–2047[]

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.^[1]

Solar eclipse series sets from 2044–2047
Ascending node		Descending node
121	February 28, 2044 Annular	126	August 23, 2044 Total
131	February 16, 2045 Annular	136	August 12, 2045 Total
141	February 5, 2046 Annular	146	August 2, 2046 Total
151	January 26, 2047 Partial	156	July 22, 2047 Partial
Partial solar eclipses on June 23, 2047 and December 16, 2047 occur on the next lunar year eclipse set.